Why we do not like the lvl56 cap
Sorry, I'm making it very general in the title, because I'm pointing the cap as a problem.... but it's true because a lot of things that came with that cap and pre-cap is problematic. It's a little hilarious but... StS wanted to put bugs in the new expansion (beetles), and so we got bugs (deary island, xp glitch ashral heart, xp glitch rockhorn, xp glitch leet ashral heart, and so on...) This is not the subject of the thread anyways.
The sad truth is that we're getting 10 level increase. This means that we get to have 50 more base points, 10 more skill points, but we also get to scale maps to lvl56... I am still using my lvl46 gear because I can't afford the lvl51 gear sold by the vendor for glinstone coins and I'm not going to farm over 2000 coins to get all of them, so StS releases new gear the week after I purchase them. Yes, I know we could send a ticket to supports and they can help me get a compensation for my loss, but I don't want to have to request support's help everytime. I don't want to spam supports for them to reply after a month. Support is flooded everyday, they have enough. I prefer keeping supports for bug reports, scam reports, "important stuff".
So I am actually stuck with lvl46 gear, scaling maps to lvl56. Does it mean I should have stayed lvl46? I don't need the masteries, I never needed them before this update. I don't need the extra base points if I lose 2/5 of them in my Rendtail ring. Yes we do get some new gear that are a little stronger and the different proc just gives another type of use to the gear. Its doesn't make it much better for the time I am asked to spend on it.
Regarding the new Arlorian Egg-Shell Band, why isn't it scaled like the arcane deary ring? Why isn't it scaled right? You made it harder to obtain one by reducing the drop rates of eggs. It isn't that hard: use the same program as the deary ring and scale it like the last year's rings. We clearly made it obvious that we obviously want a crystal clear level fifty six ring of arlorians found in an egg. Isn't it the Arlorian ring? Who's the arlorian here? It's us, but that's not what we want.
THIS is what we mean by gear progression.
Advice:
To all players who didn't cap yet, do NOTT! Go up to level 51 MAX, or stay at the level you are, don't use any experience enhancers, keep your XP off. Don't play with capped players, lvl52+ is just going to make life harder for you. You want to farm elites at lvl51 with lvl51/46 gear better then farm lvl56 scaled elites with lvl46 gear. You get to keep your arcane ring because the debuff is less important, you get to keep your lvl46 mythics and your planar pendant is still good enough at lvl51. The monsters aren't over powering you at lvl51, they are scaled to you.
To the StS Team: Justg made a mega thread asking the whole community what they want. You have a lot of material, you have a lot of unused features, you have a lot of players, you have a lot of imagination. Regarding gear progression, I understand that you guys made the new gear not that advanced for people to keep their old hard worked gear, BUT in my honest opinion, the game has always been the way it has been: an expansion means "let's move on to the next chapter of the story". The whole community had enough time to farm and use the gear. They came late, then it's their problem. We're not going to wait for them to grind and use the gear long enough to be happy. At the same time, I think that you should release new gear that's not that different from the old gear (And here we're talking about gear of the SAME LEVEL). IMO, the idea of releasing new gear every 3 months is nice but don't abuse the use of locked crates. make them farmable, reduce the price of elixirs, release new mini games, new mini maps, give a use to all the maps you have. the gear in locked crates should be good, but the best gear should always come from elites, like the dark crystal/imbued gem, like the locked watch crate legendaries VS Elite Tindirin legendaries, like the Nekro recipe quests (the arcane parchements), like the rendtail ring (elites have more chances at tooth), like the planar pendant dropping from elite bosses in planar arena, like the jewels that we farm from endgame maps (but we always get cracked or damaged ones everywhere :/ ).
This is what I think the average decent player needs. It's not what we want, it's what we need. Nobody wants to farm, nobody wants to pay. Everybody wants free and easily obtaineable gear (and we all got free mythic gear). Be a player, spend time in game, spend money to support, don't care about gambling because you know the money will go for the development of the game you play.... well I hope. I really hope, the whole community is supporting the last lines because this is what is supposed to happen in a perfect world. We just want to trust StS. We want StS to create that perfect world.
Ideas to spot farming BOTS: Monitor groups of players that always player together, in the same area. Monitor players that play always play alone in the same area. Anything that is repetitive has to be monitored at least once in it's life. Send a forced PM for the suspected player(s) to reply (forced like the revive buttons: you can't do anything before choosing one of the three options), obviously the whole games get's paused so nobody dies in the process. If it takes more then a minute for the whole team to reply, you found bots. If the whole team replies within the second the message is sent, they all are bots. Bots are programs, you can easily fool them. Kick out a player for 15min after being online for over 6hours, and don't allow them back unless they completely reboot the game. Show a warning 15 minutes before kickout. Use captcha's in game. There are tons of ideas out there. Bots aren't new in this world, they exist since the beginning of MMO's invention and there are tons of ways to find them.
Right now, the priority is the community who wants to do something out of their playing time. Then you'll have enough time for bots.
@Justg: I didn't reply in the thread you made because the thread is already over populated with thoughts and ideas.
Originally Posted by Miguel Herbert
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